To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWINAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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